7:30pm
neemgabby fluke-mogul - violin
k. kipperman - bass
8:30pm Noertker/Oi Duo
Mark Oi - electric guitar
Bill Noertker - electric bass
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neem is a queer improvisational duo focusing on issues of identity, bodies, gender, sexuality, feminism, eroticism, & more within the music continuum.
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gabby fluke-mogul is a performing, teaching, composing & collaborating-improviser based out of the bay area. gabby has existed as a violin-body in south florida, western massachusetts, & the wider new england area. in addition to performing solo acoustic violin-body improvisations, gfm collaborates with local & touring ensembles, thesis performances, facilitates community-based workshops, & teaches in public, private, & non-profit learning spaces. gfm has performed in & with a variety of ensembles, installations, bodies, & instrument bodies. gabby is presently studying with fred frith, zeena parkins, roscoe mitchell, india cooke, & pauline oliveros at mills college in the MFA program for performance & literature with improvisation specialization.
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k. kipperman is an experimental music composer, improvisor, teacher, listener, sounder, vegan, multi-media artist, writer, crafter, and more. Originally hailing from New Hampshire, they also lived for a time in Berlin, Germany, but now reside in western Massachusetts teaching and working in the Hampshire College Music Department. k will begin in the MA in [music] composition program at Mills College in Oakland, CA in the fall of 2015. Inspired by something, everything, and sometimes even nothing, k is always thinking about what it means to be connected to and critical of one's own identity and privilege within music, sound, noise, composition, art, communities, and everything else in the entire world (also outer space).
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Bassist/composer
Bill Noertker has been active in the Bay Area jazz and avant-garde scene since the late 1980s. Since 2001, he has lead his own ensemble, Noertker's Moxie, as a forum for his compositions inspired by visual artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró, architect Antoni Gaudí, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, sculptor David Beck, and others. Noertker has composed over 150 pieces of music for this group and has released eight CDs, including three CDs of his extended suite Sketches of Catalonia, and two volumes of his extended Blue Rider Suite.
He has also composed music for three films that showcase the intimately-scaled sculptures of David Beck, and composed the score for a Nikos Koumoundouros film, The Commandments or the Nostril of Ektor Kaknavatos, that was selected for the Short Film Corner at the prestigious Festival de Cannes 2010.
He is now at work scoring the upcoming Olympia Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck.”
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Mark Oi is a guitarist, composer and music educator that has been performing and recording nationally and internationally for the last 25 years in a variety of genres. He spent a decade performing, touring and collaborating with Danish jazz saxophone legend John Tchicai. During this time he performed on Danish and German National Radio, The Knitting Factory, Bauhaus, Copenhagen Jazz Haus, Yoshis, Kuumbwa Jazz, the Griefswald Jazz Festival, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and the San Francisco Jazz Festival. In 2001 he relocated to Seattle, where he played with Clinton Fearon recording on 4 albums and toured the United States, France, England, Belgium, Canada, and Guam. In Seattle, Oi also worked with Publish the Quest, recording three albums and performing in Cape Verde, Zimbabwe, Portugal, Poland, Canada and the United States. He has worked with De Cajon, a seattle-based Afro-Peruvian ensemble, studying and performing with international artists Miguel Ballumbrosio, Marina Lavalle, Cotito, Robert Arguellas, and Monica Rojas. The jazz group, Reptet featured him as a guest artist on two CDs. Recently he has been working on a recording with the improvisation trio, Mouth of Gravity consisting of Oi, Denney Goodhew and Adam Kessler. He currently resides in Alameda, CA.
Cost: $10-$15 sliding scale